Okay good, I can stick with IE then.

Aaaah, the joys of being an MVP... I received a mail from my MVP lead a solid 6 minutes before this post. Wow, what a competitive advantage! lol

Good news though.

OK so I bet we see two things:

1) IE 7.0 gets secure and breaks a bunch of stuff.....
2) IE 7.0 is released as a "Beta" for 6 to 12 months due to item #1

so really it won't be out faster.... we will just have a go at the beta for a long time while the guys at MSFT try to reduce the breaking chnages or document the ones they can't resolve.

mind you I like most things from the MSFT folks.... I just see a lot to be done to get "Up to speed" and that it's not just secuirty it's the length of time IE has been inactive in the dev-side and the related chnages in the market etc....
I think it's just gonna be a long haul to "Get it right" ALA XP SP2 stuff...

ActiveNick, being an MVP, how many emails do u get regarding such updates everyday?

They'll have to do something dramatic to tear me away from Firefox. Part of the reason that Firefox will remain entrenched among techies is because it has so many extentions and those plugins are relatively easy to write. While writing an add-on to IE is way too difficult.

Well, will IE7 have tabbed browsers? Or will they still count on third party tabbed browsers like Maxthon and Slim Browser which use the IE engine, to compete with Firefox?

I'd like to see a "new features" list.